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What a blissful atmosphere at Maths Jam Antwerp yesterday, full of respect, encouragement and acceptance. It’s an international monthly meet-up taking place every second to last Tuesday of the month, … Continue reading Maths Jam in May
Simon wanted to make an outside video this afternoon, about what he’s been thinking of a lot lately – continued fractions. In the video below, he looks for curious number … Continue reading Very irrational numbers expressed as their continued fractions
Set the six figures (pawn, queen, rook, bishop, king, knight) on a chessboard in such a way that every marked cell is threatened that number of times. For example, if … Continue reading Three chess puzzles
Simon got these from the Scam School channel. I first only got a strip paper with a sequence of green sticks written on it, separated by comas. Simon did tell … Continue reading A quiz full of fun tricks
Move three matches and turn the grid below into three identical squares. Another puzzle with the same grid: place six coins in the grid without creating a three in a … Continue reading More puzzles
This is a Japanese version of the famous River Crossings Puzzle that Simon learned from the Scam School channel (yes, our little programming and math nerd actually watches Scam School, … Continue reading River Crossings Puzzle
Simon showing the Archimedes puzzle he made himself to his Russian grandmom. Archimedes had created a colorless version of this puzzle, but Simon decided to add colors and use the … Continue reading Archemedes Puzzle
Simon has a card puzzle for you. Can you work out the original order of the cards? (The answer is in the second video below).
Simon guessing fifth power roots. Simon learned this from an older Simon on the Numberphile channel. Simon also tried to develop his own system for guessing numbers cased on their … Continue reading A great number guessing trick
This is Simon’s remix of a video by James Grime about the same subject on the SingingBanana math channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtwehGzoLM The Utilities Problem is a problem about connecting three houses … Continue reading Utilities Problem and Euler’s Formula
Simon takes two glasses, filled with equal amounts of milk and water each. He takes exactly one spoon of milk, pours it into the water and gives it a good … Continue reading Brain Teaser
Geeks out of the box 